If you needed any more convincing that the world we live in is a bloody amazing place, take a gander at the Macropinna microstoma (big ear small mouth?) fish. It has cunningly adapted to the murky depths where it lives by developing a transparent head with eyeballs which can rotate within it, so that it can, literally, look out the top of its head. Now all I need is a genetic modification which replaces my shiny pate with a transparent one...
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